io8 TRAVELS THROUGH 

 fort of cattle, and reckon that it exceeds 

 all other kinds of hay in its nourishing qua- 

 lities. Some farmers mow it twice in a year, 

 and at the fecond cutting get almoft as 

 great a produce as at the firft. Others apply 

 it green for cows and oxen, given in racks 

 and penns, in which way they reckon, that 

 an acre will fupport two or three cows 

 through the Summer. Here are no inclo- 

 fures in this country : I did not even fee a 

 iingle inclofed vineyard, however fmall the 

 ipace of ground. 



At SaifTy, upon enquiring into the pro- 

 duds and management of their vineyards and 

 corn fields, I found a fyftem of manage- 

 ment bettet than I had met with before in 

 any open fields, which was, that of fallow- 

 ing the land, then fowing rye; after the 

 rye, barley, and with the barley fainfoine 

 for twelve years ; then they pare and burn 

 the fainfoine, and fow turneps, getting 

 great crops. After the turneps they fow 

 rye or barley, of which they take three fuc- 

 ceflive crops, all good, and then fallow and 

 lay down to fainfoine again. This hufban- 

 dry is the common practice of one open 

 field; the vineyards, however, in the pof- 



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